Re: Completion of links to man pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000
> 
> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > World has changed since woman.el was developed. Are there systems with 
> > man pages available, but no man command nowadays? Android with man pages 
> > copied by its user?
> 
> MS-DOS, for example.

What we here call "MNS-DOS" (which is actually the DJGPP development
environment used to compile the MS-DOS build of Emacs) does have the
man command:

  http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/man13br2.zip

> Or old Windows versions.

The Windows port of the above is available from the ezwinports site.

> > In WoMan I have not found a way to open <man:man(7)> directly without an 
> > additional prompt for the page section.
> 
> > man.el has a lot of options how to select window for a man page. It is 
> > not the case for woman.
> > ... For Org internal link types same/other window is 
> > controlled by prefix argument (however `org-open-at-point' doc string 
> > describes another meaning of prefix argument: if link should be opened 
> > in Emacs or an external application). I am unsure what is proper 
> > behavior of man links opened from Org, should Org try to make behavior 
> > consistent or it should let packages to act as they wish.
> 
> These two sound like feature requests for WoMan. These features might also
> benefit Org, if implemented.

I don't think woman.el is being developed, or is it?